How to install Red5 Media Server on Ubuntu / Debian

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How to install Red5 Media Server on Ubuntu or Debian

Red5 Media Server is a powerful video streaming solution standing its own ground to the big giant Adobe with their own Adobe Media Server, however compared to them, Red5 is free, based on Java and other open source frameworks. It provides a good solution to business of all sizes including Enterprises. Red5 includes support for the latest multi-user API’s including NetConnection, NetStream and SharedObject’s while providing a powerful RTMP / Servlet implementation. You can stream the most popular audio/video file extensions like FLV, F4V, MP4, 3GP, MP3, F4A, M4A, AAC and supports various protocols like RTMP, RTMPT, RTMPS, RTMPE.

In this article I’m going to go and show you how to install Red5 Media Server on Ubuntu or debian.

Install Red5 Media server

Well, installing it is really simple, you just need to run the command:

After this is installed, the location of the server will be in:

/usr/share/red5/

You will need to start your server using the command:

Your server should be listening on the below default ports:

You need to upload your Red5 application in the location:

/usr/share/red5/webapps

If you load your IP address in your browser, you will see a similar page like below:

red5 default page

Red5 default page

Install demo Red5 Applications

On the same page, a bit below, you will have some sample commands you can use to install a default, ready made, application, however from what I see, these are a bit old, not updated to the new version. Below is the correct one / updated for the new version with proper links:

Once you finished this, you should be able to install some sample apps using the link:

http://server-ip:5080/installer/

red5 install application

Red5 install application

and as for the demo section, you can use:

http://server-ip:5080/demos/

and you will see a page with a few demos there.

So that’s about it to installing Red5, there’s not much to tell really, but for those looking to use this powerful server, you will need to read the docs on it. You can find them here:

http://www.red5.org/downloads/docs/

Will see you again tomorrow in our next tutorial, until next time.

 

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